The Case of the Murdered Muckraker
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780758203724 (0758203721)
Publish date: November 1st 2003
Publisher: Kensington
Pages no: 251
Edition language: English
Series: Daisy Dalrymple (#10)
Not bad but I would like to know who were real and who weren't. Daisy gets caught up in a murder, while trying to write more about her experiences in America and finds two countries divided by a common language. Like Jessica Fletcher there is no-where she can go without attracting a dead body. Als...
I didn’t like this book as well as most of the others in the Daisy Dalrymple series. The story deviates from the usual plotline of the series, both in structure and in characters, and the differences are glaring. First, the action takes place in America, not in Britain, and I commiserated with Daisy...
This books had ups and downs.The ups:- I really didn't belive that a typical british country-house cozy mystery-story would work in the US, but it did- It included lots of interesting information about the American press (and also law-enforcement) in the 1920- It really felt like 1920 New YorkThe do...
I really liked this book, in spite of the almost caricature tone to New Yorkers in the 1920s. And despite a strange set of events that hurled Daisy and Alec across America - seemingly only for the author to appease her small town of Eugene, Oregon.Regardless, it's a fun story with lots of interestin...
Actual rating: 3 1/2 stars Not as strong as some of the others in the series (not enough Alec, in my opinion), but still an enjoyable read.